[Novalug] Tablet OS?

Mike Shade mshade@mshade.org
Sat Feb 9 14:04:29 EST 2008


Beartooth wrote:
>
>     My local shop, knowing me, pointed out that they now had a tablet 
> that came with linux -- an ASUS Eee PC running Xandros. In a weak 
> moment, and not having heard of xandros's deal with the Gates of Hell, 
> I bought it.
>
>     It comes with a 7" screen, about 4 GB of (solid-state!) hard 
> drive, and 512 MB of memory. But I added a camera-type memory card 
> with about 4 GB, and a thumb drive that adds 8 GB of storage.
>
>     But despite being linux underneath, xandros is already too 
> windowed up for me.
>
>     It has synaptic (if I can find out how to launch it); but I'm 
> thinking  I might as well go ahead and install some more congenial OS, 
> rather than re-tailor xandros.
>
>     Is there a consensus on what would be good?
It'd be in your interest to either update it or replace the OS immediately.

I see that it's running a vulnerable version of samba out of the box!

Exploit, line by line:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2008-02/0119.html



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